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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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THE UNIVERSITY'S FUTURE 355 accomplishing the socialization of legislation; it is eager to assist an eager generation to comprehend more of art, literature, and the finer things of life. I t is helping teach the democracy to stand on its own feet, make its own way, and obtain whatever its enthusiasm and judgment teach it is desirable. The high school and the State University as naturally go together as do the expensive preparatory school and the expensive endowed university; and it is no less absurd to say that the high school is necessarily inferior to the preparatory school than to say that the State University is inferior to the endowed college. As Prof. Sherman remarks, the problem is in part one of financial means based on popular determination. " I t is absurd to assert that the united will and means of two or three million citizens cannot compete successfully with the sporadic generosity of two or three score of private individuals. It is absurd to declare that a great commonwealth cannot afford at its university a liberal arts college of absolutely first class. . . . To speak in the brutal language of the market, we have yet to hear that a high-grade professor of philosophy is a dearer commodity than a high-grade professor of civil engineering, or a high-grade instructor in classics than a high-grade instructor in manual arts. The higher and the lower technical education which have already been provided are not less, but more, costly than equivalent provision for the humanities. It is equally absurd that the support of the people cannot be organized except for material interests and self-regarding ends; in the humblest walks, as history blazons, it can be organized for the adoration of God and the recovery of the Holy Sepulcher. ,, Granted that the lack of the traditions and surroundings of a more highly organized society than that
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